Acknowledgements
Lists of Tables, Figures, Maps and Illustrations
Chronology
Introduction
1. The Hidden Wound
2. This Imperious Company
3. Out of the Shadows
4. The Bengal Revolution
5. The Great East Indian Crash
6. Regulating the Company
7. Justice Will be Done
8. The Toxic Exchange
9. A Skulking Power
10. Unfinished Business
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Nick Robins has more than 20 years experience in the policy and practical realities of corporate accountability. A historian by training, he currently works on sustainable and responsible investment in London. He is the author of The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto, 2012), and has written on the East India Company for the Financial Times, New Statesman and Resurgence.
'A powerful analysis of the rise and fall of the British East India
Company, a private company that conquered a subcontinent and
subjugated an entire people'
*Huw Bowen, Professor of Imperial and Maritime History, Swansea
University*
'Elegantly written and sharply argued, Nick Robins’ gripping
account of the rise and fall of the English East India Company
brings to life a crucial episode in the history of
globalisation'
*Sankar Muthu, Princeton University*
'The East India Company might have been relegated to the dustbin of
history, but Robins digs it out, looks into the nooks and crannies,
and comes up with plenty of insights that today's managers will
find rich and rewarding'
*Mick Blowfield, Senior Research Fellow at the Smith School of
Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, co-author of
Corporate Responsibility (2011)*
'Nick Robins' history of astonishing corporate greed, excess and
abuse of power is brilliantly told, and perfectly timed'
*Isabel Hilton, Editor of China Dialogue*
'A brilliant, important contribution to an understanding of
development and poverty'
*Mari Marcel Thekaekara, New Internationalist*
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